Design Rails
Hey HN, we're building Design Rails. It's a chat-based brand builder. You describe your project, iterate with an AI designer, and walk away with a logo, color palette, typography, and style guide - all formatted as specs you can drop into your project for Claude Code, Cursor or whatever you're coding with. Free tier gets you a full logo (PNG) and basic palette. Paid tier ($49 one-time) - everything you need for your next project - full coding-agent ready specs, SVG logos, icon variants, etc. Built with Next.js, Vercel AI SDK, and Inngest for the async generation jobs. Would love to hear your…
Design Rails launched on November 17, 2014 with 211 votes, #63 of 1,965 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
What it does
Chat with an AI creative director. Get a complete brand identity in minutes—logo, colors, typography, voice & tone, UI styles—all packaged as agent-ready files. No more generic UI. Drop the files into your project, and tools like Claude and Lovable generate on-brand UI from day one.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, we're building Design Rails. It's a chat-based brand builder. You describe your project, iterate with an AI designer, and walk away with a logo, color palette, typography, and style guide - all formatted as specs you can drop into your project for Claude Code, Cursor or whatever you're coding with. Free tier…
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